Printers & Finishers Ltd v Holloway

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1964
Year1964
CourtChancery Division
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114 cases
  • Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 5 December 1985
    ...breach of the duty of good faith. This distinction is clearly set out in the judgment of Mr Justice Cross (as he then was) in Printers & Finishers Ltd. v. Holloway [1965] R.P.C. 239, where he had to consider whether an ex-employee should be restrained by injunction from making use of his r......
  • Littlewoods Organisation Ltd v Harris
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 3 August 1977
    ...covenant may well be hold to be reasonable if limited to a short period. That appears from the judgment of Mr. Justice Cross in Printers & Finishers v. Holloway (1965)1 Weekly Law Reports 1 at page 6: "Although the law will not enforce a covenant directed against competition by an ex employ......
  • Napier and Another v Pressdram Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 19 May 2009
    ...in the position of the recipient ought to recognise that it should be treated as confidential. As Cross J observed in Printers and Finishers Limited v Holloway [1965] RPC 239, 256, the law would defeat its own object if it seeks to enforce in this field standards which would be rejected by ......
  • FSS Travel & Leisure Systems Ltd v Johnson
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • Invalid date
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1 firm's commentaries
  • The ‘Law' On Trade Secrets
    • Malaysia
    • Mondaq Malaysia
    • 15 March 2016
    ...Ltd v Cooper [1939] 1 All ER 290 at 307 15 Coco v AN Clark (Engineers) Ltd [1969] RPC 41 at 47 16 Printers and Finishers Ltd v Holloway [1965] RPC 239 at 256; Faccenda Chicken Ltd, supra n 2 17 Dynacast (Melaka) Sdn Bhd & Ors v Vision Cast & Anor [2008] 10 CLJ 190 at 196 18 Coco, su......
5 books & journal articles
  • Trade Secrets' Under New Zealand Law
    • New Zealand
    • Canterbury Law Review No. 22-2016, January 2016
    • 1 January 2016
    ...125 Faccenda Chicken v Fowler [1987] 1 Ch 117 (CA). 126 At 136. 127 At 136 (citations omitted). 128 Printers & Finishers Ltd v Holloway [1965] RPC 239. 129 At 253. away with him after employment, but to the extent “he carried them in his head” after employment, he was entitled to use the in......
  • REVISITING THE LAW OF CONFIDENCE IN SINGAPORE AND A PROPOSAL FOR A NEW TORT OF MISUSE OF PRIVATE INFORMATION
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2020, December 2020
    • 1 December 2020
    ...205 I-Admin (Singapore) Pte Ltd v Hong Ying Ting [2020] 1 SLR 1130 at [44]. 206 Cf Cross J's dicta in Printers & Finishers v Holloway [1965] RPC 239 at 255. 207 See paras 47–50 above. 208 Law Commission of England and Wales (Law Com No 110), Breach of Confidence: Report on a Reference under......
  • The Common Law Obligations of the Employee under the Contract of Employment
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Individual Employment Law. Second Edition
    • 16 June 2008
    ...at 619, citing London Joint Stock Bank v. Simmons , [1892] A.C. 201 at 215 (H.L.), and Printers & Finishers Ltd. v. Holloway (1964), [1965] R.P.C. 239 at 253 (Ch.) [ Printers & Finishers ]. 85 The name derives from the seminal English authority Anton Pillar KG v. Manufacturing Processes Ltd......
  • Contracts and the Implied Freedom of Political Communication
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 49-1, March 2021
    • 1 March 2021
    ...Software International Pty Ltd v Bodsworth [2005] NSWSC 1179 [83]; Heydon (n 191) 124.224. Printers and Finishers Ltd v Holloway [1964] 3 All ER 731, 736 (Cross J); Commercial Plastics Ltd v Vincent [1965]1 QB 623, 642 (Pearson LJ); Heydon (n 191) 125.225. McEllistrim v Ballymacelligot Co-o......
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